Detachable auxiliary cover for booklets.



'R. GRIFFITHQ DETACHABLE AUXILIARY COVER FOR BOOKLETS. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 22,1915.

1,191.,96L Patented July 25, 1916.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROY GRIFFITH, a' citizen of the United States, residing at Melrose, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Detachable Auxiliary Cover for Booklets, of which the following is aspecification.

Books or booklets, in mailing, have hitherto been commonly inserted intoenvelops. This frequently requires making envelops to order, incurring delay and needless cost. The books or booklets must be put into the envelops, which involves time and labor.

My invention aims to eliminate the need of putting books and booklets into separate envelops for mailing, and purposes to provide a mailing cover which both effectually safeguards the books or booklet in mailing, and also can be easily removed in such manner as to leave the book or booklet intact.

Another important object of my invention is to providea mailing cover which may also be used as a book cover protector. The cover for the booklet may also be used to protect the booklet itself. After the booklet is sent through themails and received the cover may be used to protect the booklet or pamphlet until the cover becomes soiled. It may then be removed to present a clean booklet.

The above and other objects and adpear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying draw-' ings and be explicitly defined in the appended claim. s

Figure 1 is a view showing a booklet and the cover attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a. booklet embodying my cover. Fig. 3 is a view showing the man ner in which the cover is removed from the book or pamphlet after it has been Sent through the mails.

On the drawing, the booklet is denoted by numeral 5 having leaves 6 and cover 7. The cover 7 is divided into three sections 8, 9 and 10'. In section 10, there is a slit 11 into which the tapered or beveled edge 12 of section 8 is adapted to be inserted. The

Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed June 2}, 1915. Serial No. 35AM.

cover 7 is connected to booklet 5 by means of staples 13.

Instead of a separate envelop, I employ a sheet of paper, out to fold and protect the complete book or booklet, but fastened to it when it is bound. The cover is fastenedto the-book or booklet by the lining of the book or booklet itself, whether that lining be by stapling, sewing, or .tying,that is,

the binding that extends through the leaves of the book for retaining the same together, is also extended through the cover to retain the same in position on the book. The cover is easily removed by tearing it from the binding. booklet complete, still bound, in its own cover-Q r WVhen it is-desired to mail a book having my "improved cover thereon, the ends'of the,

cover are extended slightly past the longitudinal free edges. of the book and then secured together.

' I am aware that prior to my invention similar .-1nailing device has been used for certain forms of printed niatter, though none, to the best of my knowledge and be- This leavesthe book or..

lief, with the purpose of removing the mail'-- ing-cover; or on a complete book or booklet comprising its own cover; or on a book or booklet intended to be left complete with'its cover.

The broad idea of the process of fastening a mailing cabinet to printed matter in general is not claimed but I desireto claim the following, understanding of course that changes in the details of construction may own cover, after the removal of the mailing be resorted to without departing from the Y I spirit of my invention;

sides is adapted to be inserted to secure the otherwise free ends together, in combination and envelop protects said booklet When the Withasubstantially flatbooklet havingacover ends of the combined protector and envelop I0 7 and a plurality of leaves, the combined proare connected together.

tector and envelo-p and said booklet being I i 5 bound together duringthe process of binding ROY GRIFFITH by means of staples, said combined protector Witnesses: and envelop being of substantially the same FRANKLIN COLLIER,

width'as said booklet whereby the protector WILLIAM HENRY KENDALL. 

